[ale] 'fips' usage question

[Ryan Bridges]

You may just want to spring for the full retail version of partition
magic.  I did the same thing several times back when I used Winders.  It
always worked for me.  Just shrink the drive with partition magic, boot
Linux, format the unused space with fdisk, 82 (i think) for Linux native,
and add it too /etc/fstab as where you want it to go, then copy the files
from the directory you want it to replace to the new drive, delete
everything in the old directory, and reboot.  I probably missed a step or
two but you see the point.  you probably wantto backup anything important
before trying this.

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Ryan Bridges <ryan at linuxgeneralstore.com>
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, John Mills wrote:

> 
> 'Lo -
> I have just installed RH2.0 (Hedwig) with no problems on the top half of a 4
> GBy disk. RH's install did its usual trick of creating an extended partition
> containing /, /home, and swap.
> 
> I want to shrink the FAT16 DOS/Win95 partition to half its current size and
> devote the freed 1 MBY to Linux, but Partition Magic (from the Mandrake
> repackaging of RH6.0) declines, since there is already a Linux partition.
> 
> 'fips' docs also caution that it should not be used on a system with more
> than one installed OS. I had hoped repartition, reboot Linux from a boot
> diskette, then rerun 'lilo' to rebuild my boot sector. Does anyone know a
> [reasonably] safe way to shrink my DOS partition and keep both my Linux
> installation and the content of my Win95 installation?
> 
> Thanks -
> 
>   John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
>   TGA Technologies, Inc.
>   100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
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